A Bountiful Harvest
Subtitle: The Midwestern Farm Photographs of Pete Wettach, 1925-1965 (Bur Oak Book)
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Published: August 12, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780877458135
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; Photographs: collections; Social history; 20th century; Iowa; Pictorial works; Agricultural History; Nature Photography; Photography; Photo Essays; North Central & Mid-West states; Individual Photographer; Photoessays & Documentaries; Subjects & Themes - Travel - U.S./Midwest; Photography / Photo Essays; Subjects & Themes - Plants & Animals; Agriculture - General; Photography, Agricultural; Farm life; History; Photography of farms
Description: "At the time of his death in 1976, A. M. "Pete" Wettach left behind an enormous collection - some tens of thousands of images - that provides a breathtaking complement to the work of other American photojournalists of his time. A self-taught photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration as a county supervisor in southeast Iowa during the 1930s and 1940s, he carried his camera as he traveled across the countryside visiting clients.

Although Wettach was not hired as an FSA photographer, his pictures provide a fascinating parallel to the more famous work of his FSA colleagues Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Russell Lee. Yet unlike their photographs, his reveal an amazing intimacy and familiarity with his subjects, who were frequently his friends, neighbors, family members, and clients."--BOOK JACKET.